Posted on 10/07/2009 9:10:06 AM PDT by rface
As one who has either sat in an audience or on press row for 56 years...... I must say that the performance delivered by Huckabee last night at the Illinois Family Institute was unrivaled. Regardless of what they say about television and the modern communication arts, a successful presidential candidate today still must be able to deliver a stem-winder to a crowd with reason, humor and good English usage.
The year 2008 was definitely not the right time for Huckabee........
But the country has undergone a great change for which Huckabee's views will be warmly welcomed. Not due to him but to Obama. By which I mean Obama's rough-hewn leftism. The country has reacted greatly--gone to the right on social issues (witness the polls showing more Americans identify with pro-life than pro-abortion)... and Huckabee's style... if he will drop the 2008 need to lard us with spending programs to prove his "moderation"...
Pretty soon the left-wing media smear is going to get wise and switch from savaging Palin and Glenn Beck to going after Huckabee. They'll have a much tougher time with him-as they had with Reagan. And they'll have to do it without David Letterman who has been a leading artillery weapon .......
I think it's becoming Mike Huckabee's time. Romney's too smooth, has gone through too many contortions from Massachusetts to now to be credible. Pawlenty may be all right but in many ways he seems far less experienced than Huckabee... If Huckabee continues along this vein, he's going to be the candidate to beat for 2012 because of all of them only he can use his strong base on the social issues without being self-conscious as the others would.
From what I heard last night, America is thirsting for his message. I want to hear much more.
(Excerpt) Read more at cdobs.com ...
You will be lonely........
So the MSM is ALREADY trying to pick the GOP candidate—they must not be very confident about the “O”’s ability to get re-elected!
NFW.
no
Hunter/DeMint 2012
Huckabee = McCain
The only way Huckabee will be the Republican’s choice is with MSM help same way McCain did it.
Watch his show and you will like him less. I used to think I could vote for him. After his show, I realize that he lacks discernment and judgment. He does the Obama thing, bringing on people with opinions at odds with consevatism without being able to effectively dismantle their errors on the show.
Mike Huckabee -— one of the Bush style big government conservatives. Give me a break. He raised taxes in Arkansas, he had government intervene in people’s lives by trying to make ‘healthy’ decisions for them. He is an advocate of the government doing for the people. As a conservative, the only things I want the government to do for me is to protect our nation and our property. They do that and it is plenty. I will NEVER vote for the likes of Huckabee
Please, no.
Take a look at the man’s actual record vs what he plays on TV.
This is not an authentic conservative (and he couldn't even beat McCain).
Except for Goldwater, the republicans have always picked the guy who was next and Huck is not next.
Palin or Romney is next.
Nixon followed Ike in 60, Goldwater was the outlier, then Nixon, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, Dole, Bush 2, Bush 2, and finally McCain (McCain was next by finishing 2nd to Bush in 2000 and by being in the Senate a long time).
Romney may be next by being in 2nd in 2008 until he dropped out or it may be Palin by being VP nominee.
They are next, not Huck.
Huck could easily become VP nominee in 2012 and then become next after that.
Thanks......I like him even more now....
I will never vote for the Huckster.
His comments in the last election about Mormons was just not right.
Very lonely.........
i hope you are right about that...
Palin or Romney is next.
i hope you are wrong about that...
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